The more variables, the more complex the equation, the more connections to examine, the more questions to pose and perhaps solve. Entries in a reading list are variables in an equation. These readings, chosen by this teacher, will open up the class in unanticipated ways.
By its existence, the reading list says that the course prizes its uniqueness. The modern reading list is designed to enable teaching that cannot be done by a textbook: If everything you wanted to teach in a class already existed within the covers of a book, you would assign that book and be done with it. Time, life, students, experience, and disciplines all change, so why not the readings? The work of textbooks, however, has only become more sophisticated and demanding. Modern pedagogy doesn’t depend heavily on imitatio, and Cicero’s glory days in the classroom are past (meanwhile, we’re poorer for the decline in oratory and rhetorical skills). In the 21st century, we’ve become used to the idea of the reading list as the course, as the syllabus, even as the object of study. A century and a half on, the reading list is almost identical to that course of study, in which the course is something that moves through time and space, like a stream, or that runs its course, like a fever. By the 1880s, a reading list was specifically connected to a course of study. Was it a bookseller’s list of materials for sale, as an 1859 example would suggest? That would make it something close to a catalogue. The OED traces the earliest uses of the term reading list to the mid-19th century. That concept enters English only in Victorian times. With the mechanical reproduction of texts and, later, with the invention of photography and other recording devices, a course of study could be structured around a more expansive and more individually inflected idea of what had to be read. Medieval pedagogues, for whom the university was a new invention, operated within a restricted universe of texts and an even more restricted universe of materials and approaches with which to teach them. But even if we had them, those works would be subject to two millennia of thinking about the world, including the world of these ancient texts.
#MY READING LIST SERIES#
The Locked Tomb continues to be unlike any other book series coming out, and it's worth the spectacle.Where do reading lists come from, anyway? Wouldn’t we love to know exactly what Plato’s students were required to read? In Aristotle and other ancient writers we have tantalizing glimpses of works and writers now lost. The story is as much about the sins of Necromancer God as it is about the question of who'll go to the birthday party of the sweetest super-powered girl on this (or any) world. But Muir's whip-smart prose, peppered with perfect jokes for the Terminally Online among us, will carry you through the book. It strays further from the supremely fun "lesbian necromancers in space" premise of Gideon the Ninth, the first book in the series, to unravel the lore of the book's world (galaxy?) in earnest. Nona continues the series' deep spiral into a rich setting filled with secrets, yet on its surface, is still a delightful yarn that rewards a lot of close reading. The third book in the Locked Tomb series is a lovely story about found family hiding from a galactic empire headed by a necromancer so cosmically powerful, his subjects call him God (and friends call him John). A collection of Strayed's columns, written under the pseudonym Sugar, it helps readers navigate difficult life situations.
#MY READING LIST FULL#
If you're looking for another book full of great life advice then I also recommend picking up Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Strayed proves that with enough guts anything is possible. My greatest dream is to travel solo but traveling solo as a young woman so often gets looked down upon and discouraged. She criticizes herself while also giving herself grace something that's rare in memoirs. Strayed's vulnerability and honesty is what makes this book so special.
In 1995, Cheryl Strayed dropped everything in her life in pursuit of hiking the treacherous Pacific Crest Trail.
#MY READING LIST MOVIE#
If you haven't already read this beautifully written memoir of a woman's journey on the Pacific Crest Trail, or watched the movie starring Reese Witherspoon, then add this to the top of your reading list immediately. I first read this book in 2020, but I've reread it every year since.
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